Black Quote by Jaime Harrison

I can tell you as a black person in South Carolina whose grandparents grew up through Jim Crow, when you lose the courts and…

— Jaime Harrison

The myths that are created about the South, about the way we grew up, about black people, are wrong.

— Clarence Thomas

The rich and complex history of South Carolina is the history of the African diaspora, and in many ways, I felt acutely the sense…

— Kwame Dawes

Black history is American history.

— Morgan Freeman

“The paradox—and a fearful paradox it is—is that the American Negro can have no future anywhere, on any continent, as long as he is…

— James Baldwin

“South Carolina has a much more enlightened attitude toward colored advancement than the rest of the south.”

— Colson Whitehead

“Blacks and whites in the South have had to learn to live together in a new way. Up north, they're getting acquainted for the…

— Herman E. Talmadge

“Black people are not the descendants of kings. We are—and I say this with big pride—the progeny of slaves. If there’s any majesty in…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“The opposition to Negro education in the South was at first bitter, and showed itself in ashes, insult, and blood; for the South believed…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

Having grown up in a segregated environment in the south I know what it's like to be stepped on, I know what it's like…

— Arthur Ashe

“The official erasure of any existence before enslavement – as if black Americans did not exist before the yolk and the chains and whip…

— Bonnie Greer

“And now the lies of the Civil War and the lies of these post-racial years began to resonate with each other, and I could…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates